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I just finish watching the current subbed 19 episodes of Cobra. I must say that the anime really ROCKS! I watched it for the first time when I was like 5, so I don't remember anything about it. After watching these 19 episodes I must say that this anime is a real classic. The graphics aren't that good, because they are 20 years old. however, the story, the action and the girls are all awesome.

The anime resembles in some way start wars, but it is way better

The music is good, and at times it remainds you of those old action shows from the 70s lol

The main character is a Cool guy, this is one of those few shows in which you really get to like the main character. He is funny, at times smart, at times perverted, and at times very stupid.

The bad guys are really vicious, and all of the main bad individuals are given a lot of background story and a lot of character development.

The girls are sexy! there is a lot of nudity though. So don't watch this anime if you are under 15 (There are no sex scenes) At the same time there is a fairly amount of violence in this anime. So you will see that a lot of good charaters get killed along the way. Thanks to all these elements, the anime becomes very reallistic.

Give it a try. At least for me this anime has proven to be very addicting.

If you have seen Cow boy Beepop and like it, then you will like this anime as well because it has the same style.

For some reason, it looks like old school still rocks the house. Has anyone here seen Space Adventure Cobra yet?

Well cobra is great classic imo... the character are great, action and music too.
Like you say "old school still rocks" and for an anime from 82 i find the graphic really ok

Actually in america many may not know this serie... I will suggest you taking a look at it
And those are available in Fansub as it is not licensed in America... in france however it is a well know anime (we have a lot old anime from the 80'... those were aired on tv... well I wasn't watching anime at that time, actually so I watched cobra like a year ago)

And btw there is a very good dvd boxset of cobra by Declic image, a French dvd editor: "cobra gold" it has the original(with french subs)...
unfortunaly they had some legal issue with it so that it wasn't sold very long, but at this end they sold it at very low price so that some people did some stocks of it you should still be able to find it for a quite good prices... well i guess that's just for people understanding french of wanting to watch it without subtile...

So was it the movie that was liscenced in the states, or what?
I remember seeing Space Adventure Cobra when I was a kid. I remember being distinctly unimpressed.
I remember the opening, the girls had stars for nipples and it was very scary.

So was it the movie that was liscenced in the states, or what?
I remember seeing Space Adventure Cobra when I was a kid. I remember being distinctly unimpressed.
I remember the opening, the girls had stars for nipples and it was very scary.

Don't worry about the stars this time... the version that we have here in animesuki is uncensured And believe me you won't be scared at all lol

is anyone going to reseed (or offer in any other way) this kick ass classic again?
I loved the pure eye candy and nihilistic noir touch to this series. to break from the old clear cut bad vs good guy, it had a mercenary as its main character, and lotsa naked girls. oh and cheesy disco music! can't go wrong with that recipe!!

You won't find any torrents for the simple reason that Space Adventure Cobra is licensed by Urban Vision.

What? The fact that they have the rights to distribute the movie does not mean that they have the rights to distribute the show. How comes that you have not verify well before taking the torrents off?

Besides the Movies have been licensed for quite some time now, like 5 years I would say. Although animeinfo is not a very reliable source, you can clearly see that the Movie has been licensed for a long time now, but the show is not.

This series is amusing but rather flat. The storytelling seems kind of sociopathic to me - characters are killed off just to give the "hero" something to "react" to. Other than that I like it. The trippy visuals are 10 years too late, but who cares anymore...

What? The fact that they have the rights to distribute the movie does not mean that they have the rights to distribute the show. How comes that you have not verify well before taking the torrents off?

Besides the Movies have been licensed for quite some time now, like 5 years I would say. Although animeinfo is not a very reliable source, you can clearly see that the Movie has been licensed for a long time now, but the show is not.

It looks like you haven't researched enough on the matter... http://www.urban-vision.com/links.html Go there, and you'll find that the only thing that they have licensed is the movie. That was, by the way, a long time ago. It is actually dubbed in english.

However, they don't hold the rights for the TV series, animenewsnetwork.com is mistaken here. Then who do you think is right? http://www.animenfo.com in this case is much more accurate. They have specified that the Movie is licensed but not the TV series is.

As I said before I hope that the torrents come back, due to the fact that it is definetely a plus for animesuki to have in its anime arsenal a piece of a rare classic anime such as Space Adventure Cobra.

it says they no longer has the right for Space Adventure Cobra... then who does?

No one... And actually they can be refering to the Movie rights. Because I'm %110 sure that the TV series has never been licensed in the US. If it were you can be dead sure there would be some of sort marchadaising left.

hi
i know that this topic is pretty old, but i need some help.
i got the whole series but only the first 19 episodes are subbed, i need subtitles to watch the rest. i looked for them in the net but couldn't find any. if anyone could tell me where to find them it would be big help. (in fact i don't know if the rest of the series are even subbed.)

Except that nobody has licensed the TV series yet as far as anybody knows or announced. Nor is there, or has ever been, any sort of DVD release for the series....and maybe not even for the movie....in R1. Only DVD's that'd be buyable/rentable(prolly not rentable I'd Say) for this show would be R2's or HK's or something....definitely not R1's anytime in the foreseable future.

AoD would have a long thread and a main page mention at such a license, AnimeNation would explode from the old school folk and Ask John, and all would be better in the world.

No idea if ILA is still working on the project or not since they went all "private if you beg" to everybody.

I can say with confidence though that if somebody ever does finish subbing it, a torrent will surely pop up somewhere on the net.

That English cast list would be incredibly tiny and incomplete....my only guess on it was that once upon a time those people had been contracted to do it...accepted...but the project never materialized. Just look at it compared to the French cast list. Seem to me via that it clearly shows who actually worked through the series and who didn't. Which'd be pretty evident considering that there is no R1 release for it listed there...vhs/LD/dvd/broadcast/PPV or otherwise.

UV has been all but invisible save for Golgo 13: The Professional finally making it to dvd a year ago....along with still streaming along VHD goodies and their live-action label. Nor does their page have even the slightest mention of Space Adventure Cobra....just the old standards like Biohunter and other titles that are either OOP, lost licenses, or likely heading in that direction save the VHD stuff that still seems to bring in some cash.

Near as I can estimate, ANN simply messed up or was given some overzealous info stemming from a license project that MIGHT have been in the seemingly final stages of negotiation once upon a time....but ultimately fell through completely for reasons none of us may ever know. It wouldn't be the first time...and AoD is simpy more attune to these things than ANN. Ask John at AN wouldn't still be mentioning the show as a "hopefully one day somebody will license it" regularly in his columns either.